**Keir Starmer: The Man, The Meme, The Moment – Why the World’s Suddenly Talking About This British Politician** Alright, folks, buckle up! We’re diving headfirst into the whirlwind that is Keir Starmer news, the British politician who’s suddenly got the world whispering (and memeing) his name. If you’ve been living under a rock—or, let’s be…
Labour Conference 2025: The World Watches Britain Try to Remember What a Pay Rise Looks Like By Our Man in the Cheap Seats, Geneva Brighton, United Kingdom—The seagulls here have learned to time their dive-bomb raids for the exact moment a delegate bites into a £14 halloumi wrap, a skill that would be admirable if…
Sir Menzies Campbell, the man whose surname sounds like an upscale Scottish soup, once strode the global stage as Britain’s Liberal Democrat leader with the dignified air of a man who had misplaced his reading glasses and blamed the European Union. To the wider world, Campbell—inevitably nicknamed “Ming” after a Flash Gordon villain whose eyebrows…
**The Empire Strikes Back… on AM: How a London Talk Station Became the World’s Background Noise** In the grand theater of global media, where Netflix spends more on a single episode than some nations spend on healthcare, there’s something almost quaint about LBC Radio still rattling the airwaves from a former chocolate factory in Battersea….
Penny Mordaunt and the Global Art of Falling on One’s Ceremonial Sword By Our Special Correspondent, still jet-lagged from watching Britannia rearrange the deckchairs LONDON—When Penny Mordaunt strode into Westminster last week clutching a 17th-century sword the size of a small flagpole, half the planet wondered if the British had finally decided to auction off…
Swansea, that stoic Welsh port city once famed for copper and Dylan Thomas’s hangovers, is presently auditioning for the role of Atlantis. Storms straight off the Atlantic have hurled the sea at its doorstep, turning terraced streets into Venetian canals minus the gondolas and romantic lighting. Locals now kayak to the off-licence while council officials…
The United Kingdom’s weather has always been the island nation’s most reliable export after sarcasm and colonial guilt, but this spring it has gone full performance artist. While Delhi broils at 48 °C and the Rhine hiccups through another drought, the UK has opted for a subtler form of climate nihilism: four seasons in a…
Michael Gove: The Eternal Rebound Whose Career Refuses to Die A global tour of the man who keeps re-inventing himself like a budget Bond villain PARIS — Every country has one: the political cockroach who survives scandals, reshuffles, and the occasional electoral Raid can. In France, we call them “les intouchables.” In Japan, they’re the…
The Man Behind the Curtain Who Isn’t Even in the Room By Our Correspondent in Exile, Somewhere Over the Atlantic Morgan McSweeney does not tweet, rarely gives interviews, and—according to people who have met him—prefers to speak in the hushed tone usually reserved for funeral directors or arms dealers. Yet, from Warsaw to Washington, his…
**The Unlikely Global Ripple of Sharon Hodgson: How a British MP’s Crusade Against Childhood Obesity Became a Mirror for the World’s Gluttony** *By Our Man in the Departures Lounge, Still Recovering from Airline Food* LONDON—Across the river from the glass sarcophagus that houses Parliament, Sharon Hodgson is quietly waging war on chicken nuggets. To the…
**The Eagle Has Landed (Again): Angela Eagle and the Global Art of Political Resurrection** While the world obsesses over whether Donald Trump will attempt a comeback more dramatic than a Netflix revival series, Britain’s Labour Party has quietly staged its own resurrection drama featuring a familiar face from the political cemetery. Angela Eagle—yes, that Angela…
Harriet Harman and the Curious Persistence of British Politeness in a World on Fire By Our Man in the Departures Lounge, watching the last flight to sanity taxi away without us. LONDON—On the very day Elon Musk was busy turning Twitter into X, the oceans were rehearsing new temperature records, and a Russian missile politely…
